The faculty is made up of distinguished food experts such as Catherine GESLAIN-LANÉELLE (keynote speaker), Executive Director at EFSA, Catherine ADAMS HUTT, former Chief Quality, Food Safety and Nutrition Officer at McDonald’s, Peter Barton HUTT, Lecturer on Food and Drug Law at Harvard University and Senior Counsel at Covington & Burling LLP, Susanne KETTLER, Director Regulatory Affairs at Coca-Cola, Brussels, and Lee Ann JACKSON, Counsellor at the WTO, Geneva – to name only a few.

For further information and online registration please visit the conference site.  Space is limited to 25, so make sure to reserve your place today!
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For more information or to register please call (323) 235-4243 or (626) 244-4009, or by email, danae_tapia87[at]yahoo.com, or go to this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2BFJ9TS
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Submissions relating to drug sentencing are welcomed, especially submissions on the following subjects:

• The costs and benefits to taxpayers of incarcerating low-level drug offenders
• The impact of drug sentencing laws on minority groups and other affected communities
• Whether the science of addiction can inform decisions regarding optimal responses to drug use and sales
• Legislative approaches to the challenges of incarceration for drug offenses

Call for Papers Deadline: August 27, 2012.

Submissions should be addressed to Melissa Mundt, Associate Director of Academic Services, Valparaiso University Law at Melissa.Mundt[@]valpo.edu. im

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Proposals should consist of a short abstract (max 250 words). Deadline for individual papers May 31, 2012.

For more information, contact Leif Dahlberg: dahlberg[at]csc.kth.se   im

Although the theme may be interpreted in different ways, it suggests thinking about law and justice as a physical as well as a social environment, created for specific purposes, at a certain distance from society and yet as an integral part of it. The theme also invites you to think about justice as a concrete metaphor rather than an abstract concept. Just like any ordinary garden, legal institutions affect both people working in them and people who are just passing through their arrangements.

The theme “Gardens of Justice” further suggests a plurality of justice gardens that function together or that are at times at odds with each other. There are for instance well ordered French gardens, with meticulously trimmed plants and straight angles, but that also plays tricks on your perception. There are English gardens that simultaneously look natural – un-written – and well kept, inviting you to take a slow stroll or perhaps sit down and read a book. There are closed gardens, surrounded by fences, and with limited access for ordinary people. There are gardens organized around ruins, let’s call them Roman gardens, where you can get a sense of the historical past, but without feeling threatened by its strangeness. There are Japanese stone gardens made for meditation rather than movement. There are zoological gardens, where you can study all those animal species that do not have a proper sense of justice, no social contracts, no inequality and social injustice, and no legal systems. There is, indeed, the Jungle, a real or imaginary place outside the Gardens of Law.

aims to examine legal problems and issues across a diverse range of opinions.After providing a legal framework for a particular question, books int he series will call on experts in other fileds like science, business, history, engineering, political science, and even art to broaden and enhance the discussion. &LAW will provides unique, and at times, unexpected, answers to challenging topics of contemporary importance.

There series will include one or two publications a year, in print and e-book formats. Book proposals should be sent to:

Tracy A. Thomas
Professor of Law
The University of Akron School of Law
Akron, OH 44325-2901
(330) 972-6617
thomast@uakron.edu

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Abstracts and papers are due by April 20, 2012. Interdisciplinary scholarship is especially welcome. For more information contact Professor Haochen Sun, haochen.sun|at|hku.hk.

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